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The Examination of Ex-Manager Sim
mons Begun Yesterday.

The Examination OF Ex-Manager Sim
mons Begun Yesterday.
MONTEREY, April 27th.-The preliminary
examination of Z. T. NJ. Simmons, late
manager of the Hotel Del Monte, on
charge of arson, in having set fire to the
hotel, began here to-day. The hall where
the trial was held was crowded with specta-
tors. F. G. Cleary, counsel for the
defendant, filed petition for a con-
tinuance until tomorrow. The affi-
davit filed with the petition states
that defendant was informed that Justice
Westfall, before whom the examination
had been set said on the night of the fire,
to two gentlemen, that Simmons and his
friends had conspired to burn the hotel.
The petition AYERS that by reason of the
aforesaid fact Justice Westfall is not quail
fed TO conduct the examination, and a
continuance was asked TO allow time to
obtain af1idavits of G. Wadham and w. b.
Laird, the persons to whom Justice West
fall made the above statement. The Court
refused to grant continuance.
f. S. Douty, Manager for the Pacific I'M
proyement Company. by whom the hotel
was owned, was the first witness. His testi-
mony consisted mainly of the terms under
which Simmons was employed by the
hotel. In his cross examination he stated
that simmons was removed because
Schonewald was preferred. Simmons had
always performed bis duties faithfully, but
he could not say that the guests were salts
fed with him.
c. Williams, the book-keeper, stated that
Simmons ordered him not to strike bal
ance every day, as was his custom, but to
carry the entries along in pencil for a whole
month before striking a balance in ink. He
gave as a reason that corrections can be
made if errors occurred. Witness thought
this mode of bookkeeping improper.
Addie E. Allen, an employe of the hotel,
stated that On the night of the fire she
asked Simmons where he was when the
fire broke out, and he answered that he
was visiting at the rooms of Miss Becht,
with others, when the bell-boy came to the
door and announced that he smelled
smoke, and that he went to find the source
of it. She further testified that the con-
versdtlon with Simmons took place an
hour and half after the fire started.
J. A. Clough, room-clerk of the hotel,
testified that on the day after the fire, in
conversation with Simmons, he remarked
to the latter that it was strange the fire
broke out on that particular night, and
added that it was said that Simmons set
the hotel afire. Simmons replied thai he
could prove he spent the evening before
with Captain Vandergrifts family, and
that the Captain on his leaving, said to
him If any one accuses YOU of this
crime | will furnish money to prosecute
him for libeln
Adjourned
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FATE OF A NIHIL,ST.
Death in America of One of the Lat,
Cars Assassins.

Death in America of One of the Late
Cars .Assassins.
TAMPA (Fla.) April 27th.-Word has
reached the police here to be on the look
out for two fugitives wanted at Fort Myers
for killing Gustaye Chucar, an alleged
Nihilist. The men sought are Il. A. Rus
sell, formerly of Madison, Ind, and his son
Dudley. For three or four years an island
near Fort Myers has had for hermit-like
resident Gustave Chucar, said to be fugi-
tive Russian Nihilist, who has made ad-
missions which leave little doubt that he
was implicated in the plot which ended in
the murder of the father of the Gar. In
fact, Chucar exhibited Russian papers in
which reward was offered for his capture
Upon his arrival in the United States Chu-
car took possession cf the island with the
owners consent. He built hut and pre-
vented ali persons from landing. He al
ways went well armed and had couple OF
rifles hung on the wall of the cabin. Last
week Mrs W. C. Yeomans sold the island
to Mr. Russell. Yesterday, with her hus-
band, she accompanied the Russells to the
island to persuade Chucar to leave it. Upon
learning their mission he threatened to
kill any one who attempted to disposeess
MIN. During the parleying young Russell
and Mrs. Geomans got between Chucar and
his weapons, and Russell snatched up one
of the rifles, which was discharged, killing
Chucar instantly. The Russells fled and
Yeomans and his wife returned 10 Fort
Myers. They claim that the shooting was
accidental. /. is rumored that papers max
ing important Nihilistic revelations are
among Chucar's effects.
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YUBA AND SUFFER-.
Encouraging Increase of Land Values In
the Foothills,

MARYsvILLE, April 9th. A foothill
ranch seventeen miles northeast of Marys-
vile sold by auction yesterday at S12 per
acre. A few years ago the same place found
no sale at S6 per acre. The attention of
home-seekers is being directed to the foot
hills of Yuba is furnishing fine soil and
climate, with an abundance of water for ir-
rigation, at small cost. The land ranges
from $40 to $50 in these hills, where there
are fiour'shing orange trees over 20 wears
old and bearing heavy crops of fruit of the
finest quality. The cheapness of the land
and water considered, the foothills of Yuba
county afford the finest opportunity in the
State for newcomers. The Excelsior
Water and Mining Company, of Smarts-
vile, which owns about 5000 inches of
water, is bringing the large supply for irri-
CATION along the lower edge of the foothills
into the valley.
The immigration Association of Yuba
and Sutter organized to-day for active
work. and a great influx of Eastern people
is expected. Business of all kinds is look
ing up in MarySville and a restoration of
confidence in the security OF the city has
followed the overthrow of hydraulic min
ing by the Anti-Debris Association City
property has risen greatly in value The last
few years. and farming lands, in Sutter
county especially, have doubled in price.
general boom is expected.
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THE WHEAT DEAL.
Something Like a Panic in the Mari<e
YESTERDAY.


Yesterday.
CHICAGO, April 27th-The big wheat deal
showed evidences of going to pieces to-day,
but it is possible the scare is over The
possibility of squeeze " in Nav delivery
has not entirely passed, but certainly the
free selling by members of the bull CLIQUE
has frightened the growing class Of small
holders and developed panicky and un-
certain feeling. Selling was very free
throughout the entire day. This was es-
pecially true at the opening, when the offer
ings were very heavy. The starting price
for May delivery was S4}, but values
dropped off so rapidly that the parties hay
ing stop orders to fill could not execute
them at anywhere near the limits given. 1t
was not the matter of price. The trouble
was to find buyers. Everybody was sell
ing, and no one cared to buy, and prices
dropped one-quarter and one-half
The impression had gone out before the
opening that The clique were about to sell,
and for the first ten minutes there was
scramble TO realize seldom witnessed on
Change. May declined 2lc to SIC. while
June declined 1c and July &c. During the
the excitement May dropped to lie below
June, though this premium was subse-
quently narrowed down again. When
selling ceased to some extent the operators
began to compare notes, and they came to
the conclusion that some of the firms iden-
tilted with the clique had bought very freely
of June, and this caused firmer feeling.
May advance II, June Z and July {. In
the afternoon, however, selling was again
of a furious disposition, and May dropped
to sl2, and closed for the day at SO, or pc
lower than yesterday, June 1e lower and
July Ic lower.
1t was found difficult to analyze the DAYS
operations. but the prevalent belief ap-
peared TO be that the clique intended to
shift the load of carrying wheat TO June on
other parties, removing the fear, in meas
ure, of May corner
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Springfield, Tenn.
Ny wife suffered IS months with neural
gia and paralysis. l had 10 move her in
bed and could find no relief BY the time
she had used two-thirds of O bottle of st.
Jacobs Oil she could walk.
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A DEMOCRATIC PoULr1CE.
Gorham Makes a Lively Rattling Among
the Secession Bones.

WASHINGTON, April 9th. = Especial. i
George G. Gorham was one of the speakers
q. the sixty-ffth anniversary meeting of
the birth of General Grant at the African
Metropolitan Church last evening. In the
course of his remarks he spoke Of the Cal
houn celebration in Charleston, and refer
red to Calhoun as the Judas Iscariot in
whose honor, he said, Cabinet officials
have made pilgrimage to the BIRTH place of
secession. Calhoun" said he, "put-after
much eifort-a rattlesnake liz the national
nest with the eagle, and to the progeny of
these two was intrusted the future of the
nation. The rattlesnake was ALWAYS
crowded He wanted more room.
He wanted a nation of rattlesnakes."
Gorham pictured the causes which led to
secession. He said that Southern men
would allow Northern dealers to get the
better of them in trade if they in their
turn could gain their end politically. He
satirized the timidity of the North, that
studied the Constitution to see whether it
was lawful to shoot back when we were
shot at and derided Buchanan for deciding
that we could not. He quoted the remark
once made that Buchanan sat in the White
House, like a bread-and-mik pouldce,
drawing the rebellion to head
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AIEXISO.
Supposed Discovery of Ancient Mines of
Fabulous Wealth

CITY OF MEXICO, April 27th.-The dis
covery of two of the seven lost Mexican
Gonzales mines, by an American party OF
prospectors, has been announced. Hum
boldt and Hamilton speak of the fabulous
wealth obtained from these mines by the
Spaniards. They were worked up to the
middle of the last century In 1856 the
Indians swept over Northern Mexico and
destroyed chihuahua and all the miners
were driven ont. The Indians had control
of the country SO long that the records
were lost. Recently Lieutenant Ripper,
formerly of the United States Army, w. K. !.
Glenn, of Illinois, and Captain Allen Nc
lntyre, OF Chicago, went on a surveying
expedition in the interest of a Sonora land
company, and in an old chapel found maps
and other data.
Dividing into four small parties, thor
ough search was begun, and the Mcintyre
party located what is believed to be the
Layopa silver mine, in the midst of thou
sands of ruined buildings, among large
churches and forts. Within radius of four
miles there are 920 workings, old Spanish
furnaces and tons of Stag. A few days
later, the Bowers party reported the dis
covery of Guaynopa, in the heart of the
Sierra Medre mountains. Around it are
the ruins of lis arastras. Advices from
Nogales confirm the report and state that a
great placer field has been located where
the Jesuits of 100 years ago found fortunes
for the church. Great excitement prevails
in the mining centers.
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Labouchere Fighting Back.

LONDON. April 27th.-Labouchere, with
characteristic audacity, has turned the
tables on the Times by language in public
which will compel it to bring suit against
him on the same doctrine OF the duty of
challenging ibels by legal proceedings
which it daily casts in Parnell's teeth At
Chiswick last night he asserted that the
journal some time ago found its circulation
going down, and seeking for sensation,
bought this letter from some miserable
scamp who had forged or stolen the sigma
ture of Parnell. By this sensation the
Times hoped to increase its circulation.
The Pope Seems to be in Demand.
ROME, April 27th.-It is semi-officially
stated that the Vatican, being informed
that France is desirous of resuming good
relations with the Pope, will appoint
Commission of leading ecclesiastics to
study the questions at issue and draft pro-
posals for a settlement
Wheat in Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL, April 27th.-Wheat is firm
and the demand fair. Holders offer spar
ingly. California No. 1, SIS. Id per Genital.
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rom Same Years Laier-Pemanent Cure.
Springfield, Tenn. Oct II, 1856.
Ny wife was paralyzed and could not
walk a step. Before used bottle of st.
Jacobs Oil she was about the house She
is now entirely well; does all the house
work and milking too.
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BRIGHT BITS.

Policemen belong to the arrest-ocracy.-
Merchant Tareier
Nefer borrow to-day vat you can shteal
yesterday.-Cdrl Pretzei.
A good printer can always tell how the
case stands.-Terds .Siftihgs.
Though unpretentious, the goat is some
thing of a mount-a- bank Yoakers Gazette
A vessel sailing from Cork is incomplete
without Cork 's-crew.-Neic Orleans Pieay-
flne.
A shoemaker calls his lapstone honest
confession, because it is good for the sole
7eras SiftiHgs.
1t is getting to be question which has
the greater right to the title, THE Old,
Old Story" love or hunko.-Puck.
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PRESIDENTIAL MATTERS.
Rival Candidates Preparing to Wor
New York State.


New York State.
New YORK, April 27th.-When it is re-
menbered that New York was the pivotal
State at the last Presidential election, and
the Democratic candidate distanced his
Republican competitor by less than 200
votes, the direct personal interest mani
tested now by prominent statesmen is not
surprising. At the Union League Club a
member of the Republican National Com
mittee made the statement that New York
was the State, above all others, that needed
careful watching, as her politicians were
the most slippery and least to be depended
upon, and one could never tell how far
they were to be trusted. Half an hour be-
fore this the gentleman had shaken hands
with Senator Sherman at the Fifth avenue
Hotel. There is strong probability that
Blaine will accept the invitation to make
an address in this city on Decoration Day,
and sit down to banquet at Delmonico's
in the evening, at which national topics of
live interest will be discussed. This means
business
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Electric Belt Free!

To Introduce it and obtain agents we will for the
county in the Z. s. a limited number of our Ger
man Electro Galyanic Suspensory Belts.
Price, So: a positive and unfailing cure for Ner-
vous Debility, Varioceie. Emissions Impotency
etc. $500 90 Reward paid if every Belt we manu-.
faciure does not generate genuine electric cur
rent. Address at once. ELECTRIC BELT
AGENCY, P. o. Box IFS. Brooklyn, N. Y.
dl4-1yTuThS
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UTAH.
Fatal Accidental Thief Shot and Killed
INSTANTLY

SALT LAKE, April 27th.-A young man
named Wheeler was either thrown or fell
from horse at Springviile Canyon yester-
day, and died before getting back to the
city.
The Grand Jury to-day ignored the in
dictment against Samuel Vincent on the
testimony. 1t was shown that Thomas ].
Kirland stole his guns and boots near
Evanston, Wyo. Vincent followed the
thief and on coming up recovered his
property. Vincent started along the road
near Coalville 10 turn him over to the
Sheriff of Summit county Utah, telling
him to go along and not look back Soon
Kirkland turned and snapped revolver at
Vincent, who shot him fatally.
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Reception to GencraI Bidweu

wife arrived this evening from Washing
ton. and were rendered a grand reception
by the citizens, the military, the firemen
and the band. The citizens were enthusi.
astic in their welcome, and the appearance
of the city. draped with bunting, was grand.
At the grounds entering the Generals resi-
dence, and at some of the treet-corners,
triumphal arches were erected. A well
come speech was made by W G. Lusk, and
the General responded that he was glad to
meet his neighbors and friends again at
his old home
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sherman's Niece Married.

New YORK, April 28th.-[special. Miss
Florence Hoyt, daughter of the banker, a
NJ. Hoyt land niece of General William t.
Sherman), was married to Dr. William X /.
Otis, young physician of this city, yester-
day, az st. Bartholomew's Church. The
wedding was brilliant affair.
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man. Suspicion rested upon her husband.
as 1t was alleged the couple had frequent
bitter quarrels, and this afternoon he was
arrested. Dry blood was found upon his
stockings, on his coat, and on the sleeve of
his shirt, also upon his vest and pantaloons
When asked for an explanation he refused
20 talk
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"HE WAS JusrIFIEn.r .
A Clergyman Shot Down in Another
Mans House

GRENADA (Miss.), April 27th.-Our town
was thrown into considerable excitement
today, about noon, when Captain w. B.
fowler, of this place, travelling salesman
for Schmidt Il Higler, of New Orleans, shot
and fatally wounded Rev. c. f. Stivers, of
the Episcopal Church. The shooting oc-
CURED in Towler's house. The cause is
unknown, as neither party have said any
thing about the affair. Siivers is expected
to die, and has made confession, in which
he stated that fowler was justified, and he
did not want him punished. The pbysi-
clans say Stiyers cannot recover.
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A new steamer for Lake Tahoe is being
built at the Union Iron Works, San Fran
cisco. 1t is of steel, is GO feet long and 8
feet beam. The steamer is for Yerrington
& Bliss, and will be used for towing timber
RATS across the teke.
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THE G. A. II.
Preparing for The Encampment to Open
To-day at Chico.

CHICO, April 27th.-Last Saturdays dis
patches intimated that Chico's floral fair
had closed in a blaze of glory This week
the enthusiasm has commenced again with
renewed vigor, and the City of Roses is
covered with bunting. arches of evergreens,
and all manner of devises appropriate to
the meeting of the Grand Army Encamp-
ment, composed of the Posts Of Northern
California. Tomorrow is the first day of
the encampment, and many are now here
from abroad
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The French Insist that the German
Crossed the Linz

The French Insist that the Germans
Crossed the Line.
PAEs, April 27th.-In seni-of1icial cir
cles here 1t is believed that Germany de-
sires to expedite the adjustment of the
Schnae5eles affair, and that arrangements
are progressing favorably at Berlin for
prompt and satisfactory settlement
There was to-day better feeling on the
Bourse IN consequence OF rumors that
Prince Bismarck had consented to parole
Schnaebeles.
1t is stated here that the result of the in
quiry which the Government has made in
the Schnaebeles affair has been to impress
Bismarck with the view that the arrest was
made on French territory.
DOES BISMARCK WANT A ROW?
PARIS, April 27th.-A majority of the
French newspapers suspect that Prince
Bismarck has caused the delay in the set
tlement OF the Schnaebeles affair in the
hope of impelling the French people to
commit some act of folly, and they urge
no abatement of the calmness which the
people have hitherto maintained under
serious provocation.
GERMANY MAY coYCILIATE FRANCE.
BERLIN, April 27th-P M.-The Schnae-
beles incident is on the verge of settlement.
Although the German Government is able
10 place before Herbette, the French En-
bassador, absolute evidence that Schnae-
beles mad long been actively engaged in in
citing conspiracy and acting as a spy in
Alsace, and proof that he was arrested in
German territory, it is reported in official
circles that, to conciliate France, Germany
Will offer to release Schnaebeles on condi-
ton that he be removed from the frontier
post. The papers make scant reference to
the affair. The BoerSep Courier advocates
the release of Schnaebeles, in Difference TO
French feeling, even though there be
abundant evidence that he was spy and
traitor
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ARIZONA.
Unsatisfactory Result of Duel Between
Mexicans.

MeXicans.
BENSON, April 27th.-Two Mexicans,
Louis Arantes and Perfecto Paco, assaulted
each other with knives yesterday at Fair
bank, in this county. The fight resulted
in Paco's neck being badly cut and Arantes
getting a mutilated hand. They were both
charged with assault to murder, and JUS
tice Shearer placed them under $1,000
bail each to appear for examination. Not
being able to procure bail, they were placed
in the Tombstone Jail.
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OLD-TIMERS.
The Approaching Reunion of CaIifornians
in Virginia


WASHINGTON, April 27th-[Special. l.
The proposition to have reunion of Cali
fornia pioneers, now residing in Washing.
ton, has resulted in the transmission 10
Hallett Kilbourne, who engineered the
movement, of letters from fifty-two men
who ventured out to California in 1S49-50
A large number of names of those who re-
sided in California prior to 1861, and who
desire to participate in the proposed re-
union on the 14th of May have been re-
ceived. 1t is quite likely that during the
day of the reunion and the celebration at
Marshall Hall an association of the early
Californians viii be organized Quite a
number of citizens of Baltimore who went
to California in early days have written to
Mr. Kilbourne asking if they may be al
lowed to participate in the reunion. The
probabilities are that a permanent organi-
cation will be formed on the same basis as
the Association of Pioneers in San Fran
cisco and New York, and in no far distant
future an exchange of hospiialities between
the different organizations will be in order.
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GERMANY MAY coNcIL1ArE FRANCE.
ENGLAND ALARMED.

Explosives Reported to be En- Route from
California.
LONDON, April 27th.-The Customs Off
GERS throughout Great Britain and Ireland
have received stringent orders to search all
| vessels arriving from America, China and
| the East, the Government having been
warned that explosives have been sent
| from San Francisco to ports in the East, TO
| be trans-shipped to England.
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AN UNPOPULAR LAW.
The Interstate Commission Flooded with
Protests Against the Act.

WASHINGTON, April 27th.-A number of
firms of agriculturists and horticulturists
in San Joaquin valley, California, tele-
graphs the Interstate Commission that the
manufacturers and dealers in agricultural
implements have made advances in their
wares, alleging that this was forced upon
them by the Interstate Commerce Act.
Believing the tendency of the Act being to
decrease the value all they have TO sell and
to increase the price of what they buy, the
petitioners ask such relief as it may be
within the Commission's power to grant
Letters of inquiry from representatives
of leading commercial and industrial inter
ests in all sections indicate that when the
public shall have been fully instructed
with regard to the necessary forms of pro-
cedure, the Commission will have its dock
els full to overlooking of cases involving
delicate questions of great Importance 10
the community other than those relating
to the long and short haul feature.